How often have I thanked God for my beautiful childhood's homefor my precious Southern Landfor its sunshine, its verdure, its forests, its flowers, its perfume; but

In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child; But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face.

The first demand that is made on them is that they produce, for the entertainment of the court, the shades of the supremely beautiful Paris and Helena.

But the moon-struck idealist falls in love with the beautiful Helena and, disregarding orders, attempts to hold her fast.

It is all very fantastic, but also very beautiful and marvelously pregnant in its symbolism.

Then the columns, walls and vaulting of the choir are elaborately decorated in the Byzantine style, and, all the tones being kept in aesthetic harmony, the result is a general effect more beautiful than gorgeous.

The Romans held this beautiful fountain in high esteem, and if they had known how to raise the water to the level of the town on the opposite bank of the river, they need not have taken the trouble to carry an aqueduct some twenty miles from the valley of the Vers.

I am wretchedly unhappy!' 'Believe me,' she said, raising her arms in a beautiful feminine movement, 'I do not wish to make you unhappy.'

To ask which is the better of the two styles is like asking whether a peach is better than a rose, because, both being beautiful, you can eat the one and not the other.

He can express alike the beautiful tenderness of love, and the hectic, dizzy, and appalling frenzy of extreme rage: ...

Nor was it by any volition of hers that she had commended herself to her mother in the beginning by being a beautiful and healthful child: initial pledge that she could be relied upon to turn out lucrative in the end.

"In ye arte of courting, it is often ye woman her eyes that settle ye man his fate, But if ye woman her eyes are not beautiful, she must not court with them but with other members of ye woman her body.

Ye eyes must be beautiful and ye eyes must have some mystery.

"Lastly when ye beautiful swain that ye woman loved is dead, she way go into ye room where he lies white and cold and kiss him then:

She could not banish those heart-breaking words: "When ye beautiful swain that ye woman loved is dead."

" He crossed with his candle to the opposite wall and held it up before another face: a man full of red blood out to the skin; full-lipped, red-lipped; audacious about the forehead and brows, and beautiful over his thick careless hair through which a girl's fingers seemed lately to have wandered.

" "Oh, what a beautiful present!" exclaimed Miss Anna, holding it up to the light admiringly.

" He noticed gratefully how gentle and mild she looked; there was such a beautiful softness about her and he had had hardness enough.

It has not been possible for me to get the carriage since or I should have been out to thank you for your beautiful present.

It was not unworthy of the beautiful passage which formed its ground-work; clear, consecutive, eloquent, and with a moral application of which I wish we may all avail ourselves.

By thus coming forward at a favourable moment, no doubt many beautiful specimens of SCOTTISH MINSTRELSY have in this manner been preserved from oblivion by the timely exertions of Bishop Percy, Ritson, Walter Scott, and others.

How expressive, how beautiful are its phrases!

These words, written more than ten years ago, might have been penned yesterday; and those who, like myself, have had the privilege of seeing the authoress presiding in her beautiful mansion of Duntrune, will not soon forget how happy, how gracious, and how young, old age may be.

Take such separation in connection with the beautiful sentiment, which we read in Phil. i. 18:"What then?

Why should not the beautiful astronomical discourses of Thomas Chalmers have been delivered in St. Paul's or in St. John's, Edinburgh?